The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 65

‘Heaven help thee, my son!’ said the mother, ‘that will never do; thou art still far too little.’

Who acts: Heaven, that · What happens: help, say, not do · To what, where: thee, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
2	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 help	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
14	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 do	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 do	advmod
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 art	punct
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 art	nsubj
21	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 art	advmod
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 little	advmod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 far	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	Heaven	thee	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the mother	tree rules
3	not do	future	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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